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Ex-prosecutor knocks the legs out from under Trump over his Mar-a-Lago raid rant

Donald Trump and the White House seized on a Fox News report Tuesday alleging that the FBI lacked probable cause to search his Mar-a-Lago resort for government documents taken after his 2020 election loss.

Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance disputed this characterization, noting that Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon had already addressed and rejected this argument while overseeing the case before it was dismissed following Trump's re-election.

Fox News reporter Brooke Singman reported that FBI emails she obtained suggested investigators questioned whether probable cause existed for the search and felt pressured by the Biden administration's Justice Department to proceed.

Trump posted on Truth Social: "Unreasonable Search and Seizure!!! That was the FBI's CRIMINAL RAID on Mar-a-Lago. This can never be allowed to happen again!!! President DJT"

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt amplified the story, posting, "Here's the story that matters.."

Vance countered both on her Substack platform, explaining that even Cannon rejected the notion that internal FBI disagreement invalidated the probable cause underlying the search warrant. When Trump's attorneys challenged how the warrant was obtained, Cannon—despite her general favorability toward Trump—sided with the Department of Justice.

"But Cannon didn't find in Trump's favor in this instance, finding that there was sufficient probable cause for the search warrant despite any dissent in the FBI ranks. Cannon held that considering dissenting views by FBI agents would not have 'altered the evidentiary calculus in support of probable cause,' a remarkable ruling from a Judge who leaned strongly in Trump's favor throughout," Vance wrote.

MSNBC's Carol Leonig also disputed Singman's reporting, characterizing it as "misleading" on social media. "Senior @FBI officials agreed there was ample probable cause before the Aug 2022 raid - incl videotapes showing Trump aides had secretly moved boxes of government records out of storage room," Leonig wrote.

You can read more from Vance right here.

Trump's 'radical' policies are 'straining the MAGA faithful': Nobel Prize winner

Donald Trump's "radical" plan for the economy is alienating even his most faithful supporters, a Nobel Prize winner has claimed.

Paul Krugman explained the president's wilder choices for the economy, including a series of massive tariffs and bonuses for air traffic controllers who worked through the government shutdown are beginning to worry MAGA followers. Writing in his Substack newsletter, Krugman explained how Trump had inherited an economy that was in much better shape before he took office.

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Trump's broken promises are fueling 'a reckoning of his own' making: analysis

Journalist and political correctness critic Matt Johnson is highly critical of President Donald Trump — but on Wednesday he shared an historic theory that encapsulates why the leader has found his administration in crisis.

In an article for conservative website The Bulwark, he laid out some reasons why Trump is performing so badly in polls — including his overreach and a betrayal of the economic issues he campaigned on in 2024.

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'That's going to be a problem': Jim Jordan menaces Jack Smith before secretive hearing

Former special counsel Jack Smith is scheduled to testify in a closed-door session before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) signaled his antagonistic approach when speaking with reporters ahead of the hearing.

Smith had requested a public hearing, which Jordan declined. The closed-door session will focus on Smith's investigations into Donald Trump, which were discontinued following the president's re-election.

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'Can only hurt him': Author warns Trump just showed he is truly 'off his rocker'

A prominent author who has written about President Donald Trump for decades warned on Tuesday that the president just showed the world that he is genuinely "off his f------ rocker."

Journalist Michael Wolff, who has written four books about Trump, discussed Trump's response to director Rob Reiner's murder on a new episode of "Inside Trump's Head," a podcast that he co-hosts with Joana Coles of The Daily Beast. Trump posted on Truth Social that Reiner, a frequent critic of Trump's, suffered from "Trump Derrangement Syndrome," and suggested that this may have led to his death.

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'Some renaissance': WSJ editorial board roasts Trump's latest economic report

The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board bashed President Donald Trump's favorite economic policy on Tuesday after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest job market update.

The latest data showed that the economy created 64,000 net new jobs in November following a decline of 105,000 in October. The Journal's editors noted in a new editorial that the figure "sounds worse than it is because the net jobs decline was all in government jobs."

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GOP firebrand rips Fox News for suddenly covering affordability after party got 'crushed'

A MAGA firebrand roasted Fox News during a CNN interview on Tuesday over the network's coverage of President Donald Trump's administration.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called out Fox News for being late to the party on "affordability," which public polling shows is the top issue for voters heading into the 2026 midterm election. She also called out House SpeakerMike Johnson (R-LA) for putting Republicans in a tough spot on health care by shutting down the government for eight weeks.

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'Very bad news': Republican senators shut down Trump's nomination for key ambassador post

President Donald Trump received a blow on Tuesday as it became clear both of North Carolina's Republican senators are set to reject a nominee from that state for Ambassador for International Religious Freedom.

Former Rep. Mark Walker, a pastor who previously served as vice chair of the House Republican Conference, appears to be opposed by both Sen. Ted Budd and Sen. Thom Tillis. Under Senate traditions, nominees need the approval of both home state senators, a process known as the "blue slip."

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'Bad idea': Trump's shocking new threats against foreign nation torn apart

President Donald Trump made his designs on a potential invasion of Venezuela clearer than ever with a public threat issued on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday evening.

"Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America," said Trump, who has spent the last few months striking ships in the area ostensibly to combat drug trafficking. "It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."

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‘Freewheeling’ Trump aide's trashing of admin stopped reporter cold: 'Lightning striking'

A reporter for Vanity Fair said on Tuesday that he was "astonished" by how a Trump administration official conducted herself during a series of 11 interviews.

Chris Whipple, who published a bombshell report on Trump's Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, and the Trump White House on Tuesday, discussed his reporting on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360." He described Wiles's interviews as "unguarded," considering some of the revelations she gave Whipple.

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'Ship has sailed': MAGA Republicans abandon Trump's scheme as tempers flare

In the aftermath of President Donald Trump's failed push to get Indiana Republicans to pass an extreme mid-decade gerrymander deleting all Democratic congressional seats in the state, GOP officials there who supported the effort are admitting defeat — and facing recriminations from within their own party.

Trump threw everything he could at getting Indiana to pass the new map, sending Vice President JD Vance to the state multiple times, and Gov. Mike Braun and the congressional GOP delegation endorsed the plan. But after a bitterly divisive session that involved GOP holdouts being targeted with violent threats, Braun has acknowledged it's not going to happen anytime soon.

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Republican congressman refuses to defend his own constituents Trump called 'garbage'

The New Republic reports House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) refused to give a direct answer when asked if he agreed with President Donald Trump’s characterization of thousands of Somali residents — thousands of whom live in Emmer's district — as “garbage.”

Migrant Insider’s Pablo Manríquez confronted Emmer as he walked down a hall, demanding if he agreed with Trump that “5,000 Somali residents in your district in St. Cloud are garbage?”

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CNN analyst gobsmacked as White House aide hands Trump's top foes a 'gift'

A political commentator was stunned on Tuesday night after hearing about a series of interviews a Trump administration official gave to Vanity Fair.

Susie Wiles, Trump's chief of staff, sat for 11 interviews with the outlet over several months. The article Vanity Fair published on Tuesday included comments from Wiles calling officials like OMB Director Russ Vought a "zealot" and saying Trump is only pursuing charges against Letitia James and James Comey as "retribution."

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